A two-hour warning strike is scheduled for Tuesday, in over 1,500 town halls in the country, between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m., in the context of dissatisfaction with the local and central administration reform project. The protest will take place while the mayors are participating in the General Assembly of the Association of Municipalities in Romania, organized at the Palace of the Parliament.
A two-hour warning strike is scheduled for Tuesday. PHOTO: SCOR union
According to the FORUM Trade Union from the Public Administration, the warning strike will affect the activity of 1,582 municipalities. In parallel, from 10:00 a.m., the General Assembly of the Association of Municipalities takes place, and from 10:30 a.m., Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan will participate in the debate entitled “Administrative reform, the policy of reducing public expenses and their impact on communes in Romania”.
Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan declared, on Monday evening, that Romania has two long-term options regarding the local public administration: either demonstrate that the current administrative organization can function with less staff and lower expenses, or it will have to resort to an administrative-territorial reorganization.
“It is only a matter of time until Romania can no longer bear these transfers and an administrative reorganization will be reached. This will happen when the authorities have their backs against the wall“, said the head of the Government, in an intervention on Digi 24.
Ilie Bolojan also specified that, although local authorities will have, in total, larger budgets than last year, transfers from the state budget will be reduced. According to the prime minister, the increase in income from property taxes would compensate for the amounts that will no longer be allocated from the central level.
Last week, the Prime Minister announced that the public administration reform package has entered the governmental approval circuit and is to be adopted this week, by assuming the responsibility of the Government in Parliament.
